Line #4 Fridge/Travelers


1	[[AC:FridgeBrilliance]]
2	* A show that features time travel has to feature a level of consistency.
3	* Vincent is Traveler 001, and [[spoiler: Simon]] is 004. The three-digit numbers show that in the beginning the program hadn't conceived of needing ''thousands'' of people. But they'd figured that out pretty quickly, since Grace is '''00'''27.
4	* The revelation in "Omega" that the final cause for the BadFuture was a nuclear winter brought on by war over diminishing resources hints at just why the future [[InSpiteOfANail stubbornly stays the same]] no matter what the Travelers do, and also why the Grand Plan seems to call for fixing such a wide variety of problems. "Diminishing resources" can be caused by any number of factors, so unless you make sure that ''none'' of those factors remain, the war will come, the winter will follow, and humanity will end up in that same crumbling shelter.
5
6	[[AC:FridgeHorror]]
7	* In [=S2E5=], we see a previously overridden consciousness of a host overridden by another consciousness, suffer a nose bleed. In [=S2E7=], we see what happens to a host that is consistently overridden, seconds after each other in real time. So after the reveal of [=S2E11=] and what happened to [[spoiler: the original Marcy]], what does that mean since this [[spoiler: she's on her third override?]]
8	* The basic premise of the Travelers is that they arrive by jumping into the body of someone right at the moment they historically died. We see this several times in the first episode, with most of the hosts being mortally injured by head trauma or drug overdose. However, [[spoiler: the original Grant [=MacLaren=]]] isn't injured at all. The other already arrived Travelers ''prevent'' his historical death (he historically falls down an elevator shaft, and they catch him before he falls) and explain what's about to happen before their last member jumps into his body. Unlike with the others, there's no argument to be made that he was already on the brink of death- they save his body, and then kill him.
9	* The scene in the final episode where Phillip goes to the recently deceased David's apartment and has visions of David and Marcy living a happy life and even starting a family? That's not some happy ending alternative timeline, that's the timeline where Original!Marcy didn't get her brains scrambled by 001, The tell is Marcy's unbridled excitement at finding out she's pregnant, future Marcy is a devout believer in the plan and knows Travelers are forbidden to procreate. This is even bookended in the final scene where we see Marcy and David meet in the new non-travelers timeline and quickly hit it off.
10	[[AC:FridgeLogic]]
11	* The Protocols that the Travelers follow seem to be written in direct response to what 001 did when he went back. This also goes hand in hand with Grace's explanation that the Grand Plan is in a state of constant flux as new situations arise.
12	** ''1: The Mission Comes First.'' [[spoiler: The first thing 001 does is to panic and go off mission, where he could have used any alternate means to see it through.]]
13	** ''2: Leave the future in the past.'' [[spoiler: 001's fixation on the future and his inability to focus on where he is, owing much to the fact that he is aware that he's trying to go against The Grand Plan, is what leads him to try and orient himself solely against the future... which is why he's such a destructive force.]]
14	*** An alternate take on 2 is ''Never jeopardize your cover.'' [[spoiler: This didn't even apply to 001 because his cover was that he was a casualty in the 9/11 attacks. However, he could still have maintained his position as an IT guy who had survived rather than completely reinventing himself, using his future-gained knowledge of the past.]]
15	** ''3: Don't take a life; don't save a life. Don't interfere.'' [[spoiler: 001's first act after his mission failed is to try and save everyone on the same floor as him. His second act is to save his host, who should have died minutes after he arrived. This allows him to interfere with the events in a big way, causing ripples in the timeline that eventually lead to the bad future.]]
16	** ''4: Don't reproduce.'' [[spoiler: 001 fathers a child, which means not only did he save someone who was supposed to have died, he also created someone who should not have existed, further damaging the timeline.]]
17	** ''5: In the absence of direction, maintain your host's life.'' [[spoiler: 001 takes his host from an unassuming, friendly IT guy in a trading firm to a reclusive multi-billionaire anonymously heading several companies, who is involved in medical tech, investment consultations, and God knows what else. The sheer magnitude of the ripples he causes simply by shifting his host's life in a radical new direction is one of the many things that confounds the problems of the timeline he's in.]]
18	** ''6: Do not communicate with other travelers outside your team unless sanctioned by the Director.'' [[spoiler: 001's contact with 004, Simon, is what leads to many developments that lead directly to the destruction of the Grand Plan and causes untold suffering to Travelers and civilians alike.]]

Context Fridge / Travelers